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This letter written by Anson Stone, assistant treasurer of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, is sent to inform Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, an agent of the Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee, of the fares for traveling to Kansas Territory. He includes the prices of tickets for each leg of the journey between Boston and Kansas City, with a total price of $34.00. Stone is writing from the company's office at 3 Winter Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Creator: Stone, Anson J.
Date: March 12, 1857
Item Number: 90761
Call Number: Thomas W. Higginson Coll. #380 Box 1 Folder 6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90761
Collections - Manuscript - Higginson, Thomas W.
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable People - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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